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Bolling said, if I were you I would watch Huggins, for I heard him say, if you fooled with him any more he intended to kill you. I also heard from Robert Jones that Huggins intended to take my britches down and whip me. Huggins a great deal stouter than I am-, could tie me easily. I never gave written orders not to knock the apples- but gave verbal orders to Alfred and his family not to knock the apples. A great deal of pains had been taken with the orchard, and I wished to save some of the fruit. I heard nearly every day that Alfred & his family were committing depredations on the Orchard. Saw him myself I think about four times; his wife a good many times- told them not to knock the apples, but they might have what had fallen on the ground. On the night of the difficulty- I was coming home from work about dusk. Had been working at Mr Halls, about one mile and a half from my house- was returning through my orchard and when about middle way, I heard someone knocking apples off the trees. Did not know who it was- they were not in the path, but about twenty steps from the path. I stopped but could not tell who it was. They stopped knocking when I came to a halt. I then hollered, when about twenty steps off, and asked, who was that knocking off apples, Huggins answered it is me! (I thought he had been trying to conceal himself, when he first spoke. He did not give his name, but I knew him by his voice.

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The writer's capital Bs and Rs look similar, but in reviewing all pages of this document it appears the last name is Bain and not Rain (and Bolling instead of Rolling). ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-05-13 20:22:30 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-05-14 11:26:36